RE: OT: M$ Outlook Virus
while it is tru you can remove most scriptin support with removin the
microsoft scripting host, what if you're a developer ? Or you're environment
requires you to be able to run scripts ?
-----Original Message-----
From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:hallstevenson@mindspring.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 3:41 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: OT: M$ Outlook Virus
> William Leese <wleese@europe.nl.com> writes:
>
> > can someone tell me why an email client needs
> > visual basic scripting and java/script support when
> > it is obviously a high security risk?
Outlook Express is actually a "module" or subset of Internet Explorer.
It would be somewhat unreasonable to remove java/javascript support from
a web browser nowadays. VB scripting is a different story. I *think*
it's part of "Windows Scripting Host", which you can remove seperately.
It's an optional part of a Windows installation.
I'm using Outlook Express right now... Let me check if you can turn off
java/javascript in the mail client alone (I know you can with Netscape's
mail client and mozilla's client).
Okay, from what I can see regarding java/javascript, the best you can do
is turn on "prompting". The choices are enable, disable, and prompt.
Regards
Hall
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